The Line Held is a historical novel set in rural Punjab in the years surrounding Partition in 1947. As political boundaries begin to divide a land where people have lived together for generations, ordinary lives are caught in circumstances they ne...
The Line Held is a historical novel set in rural Punjab in the years surrounding Partition in 1947. As political boundaries begin to divide a land where people have lived together for generations, ordinary lives are caught in circumstances they neither created nor understand.At its heart is a story of friendship, endurance and humanity. The novel explores what happens to people when familiar places, relationships and certainties begin to disappear, and what remains when history draws a line between communities that once shared the same soil.Rather than looking at Partition only through dates and political decisions, The Line Held remembers the people who lived through it; their choices, their losses, their courage and the bonds that survived.
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